Supply Chain Performance: Collaboration, Alignment and Coordination [Hardcover]

This book examines the opportunities for, and the effects and benefits of, collaborative working practices and their impact on supply chain performance. The book is organized into three main parts; first part focuses on modeling the supply chain using conceptual frameworks to describe the relationship between collaboration and performance. The second part examines the issues around information systems alignment, and ensuring the management and coordination of interactions with suppliers and customers. The final part of the book focuses on the various different formalized approaches (including simulation, game theory, experimental economics, Petri nets and object-oriented design techniques) that may be taken to analyze the impact of any given collaboration process, coordination mechanism, or decision-making behavior on supply chain performance.

Introduction xi
Val?rie BOTTA-GENOULAZ, Jean-Pierre CAMPAGNE, Daniel LLERENA and Claude PELLEGRIN

PART I. FOCUS ON COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES 1

Chapter 1. Modeling the SC CollaborationPerformance Relationship in Empirical Research 3
Claude PELLEGRIN, Val?rie BOTTA-GENOULAZ and Jean-Pierre CAMPAGNE

1.1. Introduction: the SC collaborationperformance relationship in question 3

1.2. Analyzing the SC collaborationperformance link in empirical research 10

1.3. Towards a categorization of empirical studies on the SC collaboration performance linkage 30

1.4. Summary and conclusion 45

1.5. Bibliography 47

Chapter 2. Information-sharing Practices and their Impacts on Supply Chain Performance 53
Val?rie BOTTA-GENOULAZ and Claude PELLEGRIN

2.1. Introduction 53

2.2. Role of information and IS in supply-chain collaboration 54&l3G